John Lescault

A thinking person's guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our...

Written by the officer who became General Longstreet's most trusted associate, this collection of firsthand accounts, memoirs, and diaries grants the...

At the beginning of the 1930s, historian William L. Shirer was sent to India by the Chicago Tribune to cover the rise of the Independence Movement. During...

Union and Confederate veterans meet at Gettysburg on the fiftieth anniversary of the battle.This reunion drew over fifty-five thousand official attendees who...

It's tough being an author these days, and it's getting harder. A recent Authors Guild survey showed that the median income for all published authors in...

Atomic Bomb Island tells the story of an elite, top-secret team of sailors, airmen, scientists, technicians, and engineers who came to Tinian in the Marianas...

Say it with styleon paper or in person.This book explains why the best writing sounds that way, with hundreds of examples from Lincoln, Churchill, and other...

Make your writing and speech shine like the sun! Here's the most entertaining and instructive book about enlivening and clarifying communication by comparing...

Robert Frost (1874-1963) was the most celebrated poet in America for most of the twentieth century. Although chiefly associated with the life and landscapes...

The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically...

Washington, DC, gleams with stately columns and neoclassical temples, a pulsing hub of political power and prowess. But for decades it was one of the worst...

Where can you find the worst weather on earth? The surprising answer in Tying Down the Wind is: everywhere. You don't need to climb Mount Everest or voyage...

Laura Dearborn, a young woman is courted and pursued by three men: Curtis Jadwin, Sheldon Corthell, and Landry Court. She marries Jadwin, who over time loses...

For twenty-four winters, the blond child had been held captive by the Indians. Now rangy, raw-boned Ben Allison set out to heat up a stone-cold trail and...

Yellowstone Kelly is an Indian fighter and scout like no other. The devil-may-care Irishman can pick off hostiles and quote the classics with equal ease and...

In 1853, Frederick Law Olmsted was working for the New York Times when he journeyed to the southern slave states and wrote one of the most important...

Kirby Randolph was a tough mountain man. He had promised himself that he would get the wagon train to Santa Fe because Aurelie St. Clair was in one of the...

Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton,...

"Last September the United States drew a thin curtain of radiation around the earth...The feat was regarded by some of its leading participants as the...